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Audio AI Engineer

Virtual Vocations Inc
2 hours ago
Full-time
On-site
East New York, New York, United States
To support a national security mission, the full-time Audio AI Engineer will optimize and adapt multilingual speech-to-text models for mobile devices, ensuring high performance and accuracy while collaborating with mobile engineering teams. Key Responsibilities

Ingest, clean, segment, label, and version multilingual audio and transcript data, focusing on code-switching and borrowed-word phenomena Fine-tune and compress large ASR models to meet iPhone-class memory, latency, and battery constraints while maintaining transcription quality Design model packaging for dynamic, per-language deployment based on use-case context and build evaluation pipelines to assess model performance

Required Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Machine Learning, Computational Linguistics, or a closely related field Strong data-engineering background with experience in building production pipelines for large audio/text datasets Hands-on experience fine-tuning or adapting speech/audio models using parameter-efficient methods and model compression techniques Practical experience with ASR/speech-to-text model development and evaluation across multiple languages Strong Python and SQL skills; familiarity with PyTorch, Hugging Face Transformers/PEFT, and related tools